Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 23:11:01 PDT From: "Shameek Basu" <shameek_basu@hotmail.com> To: chris@fedde.littleton.co.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of inodes! Message-ID: <20000514061101.46927.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>On Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:08 PDT "Shameek Basu" wrote: > +------------------ > | Hi, > | > | I did a df and this was the output: > | > | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > | /dev/ad3s1a 49583 24913 20704 55% / > | /dev/ad3s1f 4125061 1305486 2489571 34% /usr > | /dev/ad3s1e 19815 12619 5611 69% /var > | procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > | > | I also did a fsck manually - there were no inconsistencies. Could > | someone please help me out? > +------------------ > >run df -i, you may find something interesting. > I did..I discovered that I had 5000 inodes on /dev/as3s1e (or /var) and all were used up! This problem happened when I was installing a large no of packages on my machine. I think the pkg_add program makes a lot of symbolic links in /var/db/pkg directory. So though there aren't too many bytes used up, a lot of inodes are used up on /var. Of course I am speculating here. Is there a solution to this other than uninstalling all these apps that I had installed? Are there some directories in /var that I can delete w/o harming the system? I think deleting the symbolic links will cause problems at the time of uninstall and upgrades etc. Shameek >chris > >-- > Chris Fedde > 303 773 9134 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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